[amsat-bb] CAMSAT Frequency chaos

[David G0MRF]

Interesting.
 
Only a few days ago there was a comment that a satellite launched 15 years ago was transmitting on 144.390 which was being used for weak signal meteor scatter in Europe. That was unintentional and in any case only sent a couple of very short beacons per minute.
 
Now we see another satellite 'licensed' very recently using exactly the same frequency and a lot of other satellites transmitting on frequencies allocated to repeaters and other services.
 
I presume the IARU were 'informed' of these frequencies rather than coordinating them.
 
I wonder if the head of licensing in Bejing is the same chap who thought the Anti satellite missile test, that produced thousands of pieces of space debris, was a good idea.
 
(rant over)
 
David
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:19
Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launch scheduled between Sep 7th-9th


Earlier this morning, the ARRL posted this update on the launch of
nine CAMSAT
amateur satellites, now scheduled for sometime between
September 7th and 9th
:

http://www.arrl.org/news/chinese-amateur-radio-satellites-set-to-launch-in-early-september

There's
also a nice frequency chart for the nine amateur satellites on
this
launch:

http://www.arrl.org/files/media/News/XW-2CAS-3%20Sats.pdf

September
should be a fun month!

73,

Paul,
N8HM
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